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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Weather or not

For the past three days the weather channel has been forecasting that we'll get massive storms coming our way. I'm beginning to suspect their forecasts: this year has been particularly full of dire warnings (a couple of months ago they threatened 8-10 inches of snow, and we got a dusting) which have failed to come to pass.

I don't mind the fact that we haven't had the side effects of the storm system: the tornadoes have been bad in other states, and I definitely don't miss having them here.

I understand the difficulties of weather forecasting, the inherent instability of the systems they need to predict. But surely a forecast of "100% chance of rain" three days running should come through at least once? Perhaps the percentages could be downgraded to 90% instead? After all, a three day dry spell would only be a one in a thousand longshot!